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The QC, Vol. 90, No. 20 • March 11, 1994

2004_03_11_001

The Voice of Whittier College Since 1914
Quaker Campus
GET FIT AND GET FUNKY
We rate the gyms in the Whittier area, like we don't
have a gym on campus • Campus Life, Page 9
Thursday. March l 1. 2004
Issue 20 - Volume 90
REVIEW OF NEW PLAY
We review Our Town which opened Wednesday-
night • A&E, Page 12
Web.Whittier.Edu/QC
Power company aborts plans
to shut off campus electricity
Patrick Holmes 1»* ^^B1B1B^BB1^1^ fJT'^''
Patrick Holmes
QC News Co-Editor
Signs on residence hall doors
warned students that campus power
would be turned off and switched to
generator power Monday, March" 8,
. at around 7 p.m. but the power switch
turned out be a false alarm. The
signs were posted because the school
"had an alarm go off that signaled
an outage was possible," Executive
Director of Human Resources and
Administrative Services Jan Meri-
deth said. "However, Southern California Edison (S.C.E.) [the company that supplies power to the college] aborted [the alarm]."
' Junior Harris resident Gina
Gutierrez saw the signs and said, "I
turned off my computer and that
morning, before I left the room, I
turned of all the lights." First-year
Stauffer resident Kim Morrison said,
"I saved my essay and I stayed
online and talked and I told some of
my friends that I might sign off."
The reason the reason for the
potential shut down is because the
school is part of a program called I-
6 through S.C.E. "Since May of
1993, the Col lege has had a contract
with S.C.E. to shut down the power
3 :■ :':'
PAUL GALLAHER / QC ASST. PHOTO EDITOR
The Whittier College generator will provide backup power to
the College in case of an emergency, said Executive Director
of Human Resources and Administrative Services Jan Merideth.
in the event of a stage three power of the contract, S.C.E. can order the
shortage," an article in the January College's power shut down for up
18,2001 Quaker Campus [issue 14,
volume 87] said. "Under the terms see POWER, page 7
Grocery strike draws to a close
Grocery workers approved a
tentative contract negotiated by the
United Food and Commercial
Workers Union that ended the 141-
day strike against Albertsons Inc.
and Kroger Co., who own Ralphs
and Safeway and are the parent companies of Vons and Pavilions on
February 29. Although the details
of the contract have not been publicized.. CNN reported that the contract requires employees to pay for
health benefits and establishes a
two-tier system where veteran employees will be paid more than the
newer employees. The new contract does not discuss raises. The
three-year agreement covers more
than 23.000 Albertsons associates
in 259 stores in Southern California.
According to a statement issued by Albertsons, the President
of Albertsons' Southern California
Division Dave Simonson said, "We
Tammy Marashlian
QC News Assistant Editor
are thrilled to welcome back our
associates. We will be working very
hard to win back customer loyalty
and make life easier for these customers as they resume shopping in
their neighborhood Alberstons
store."
"I think it was more of an inconvenience for the people who had to
go there," said sophomore Julia
Diaz. "But for me, I didn't have to
go there; so I could shop at Target or
Wal-Mart." However, other students such as junior Julie Harrington
needed to go to the markets despite
the strike. "I felt that they were
mean and they yelled at me every
time I went because I had to go,"
said Harrington.
Some Whittier students feel
unsympathetic toward the grocery
workers. "I do not believe that unskilled labor deserves benefits because there are people out there
with college degrees who are strug
gling for a career, while these workers just demand benefits for pushing buttons and shopping carts—
it's unfair," said first-year student
Cynthia Zaragoza.
The four-and-a-half-month
strike, which started on October 11,
affected 859 stores from San Diego
to San Luis Obispo to Bakersfield
and has cost Albertsons $235 million, according to the Los Angeles
Times. "From a worker's viewpoint,
it was worth it because they got
what they wanted even though it
took a while," said first-year student Patricia Carlos. "From a consumer' s perspective, it wasn' t worth
it because right now the prices are
low, but in the long run, it will hurt
the shoppers," said Carlos.
Among the 70,000 employees
that were locked out was senior
Harmony Valuet who works at Al-
see STRIKE, page 7
Marijuana suspicion
leads to three arrests
Brycie Jones
QC News Co-Editor
Three WhittierCollege students
suspected of marijuana possession
and distribution were arrested by
the Whittier Police Department soon
after midnight on Wednesday,
March 3, according to Assistant
Chief of Campus Safety John Lewis.
According to Lewis, two large
eight-inch by eight-inch Ziploc bags
and three smaller, sandwich-sized
Ziploc bags full of a "leafy, green
substance resembling marijuana"
and two scales were allegedly discovered in a third floor Stauffer
Residence Hall room the late
evening of Tuesday, March 2. Campus Safety was called to the room
by a Resident Advisor to investigate apossible marijuana smell coming from the room when the substance was reportedly discovered.
Lewis said, "Due to the large
quantity of substance, we notified
the Whittier Police Department.
When they
arrived they
photographed the
evidence
and took the
three suspects away.
[The students] were
arrested and
booked at
the Whittier
Police De-
partmentjail
facility."
According to Area Coordinator
for Stauffer and Johnson Residence
Halls Anne Ehrlich, the three suspects returned to campus the afternoon of Wednesday, March 3.
Although College disciplinary
action toward the three suspects has
not yet been decided, Ehrlich said,
"When students do something that
warrants involving police, they generally go to the College Hearing
Board."
According to California Health
and Safety Code Section 11357,
"every person who possesses more
than 28.5 grams of marijuana, other
than concentrated cannabis, shall
be punished by imprisonment in the
county jail for a period of not more
than six months or by a fine of not
more than five hundred dollars
($500), or by both such fine and
imprisonment." The maximum fine
"If occupants are doing
something wrong, they
usually draw attention to
themselves. That's how
we [Campus Safety]get
involved."
John Lewis
Assistant Chief of
Campus Safety
for first time possession of less than
28.5 grams is a fine of no more than
$100.
Distribution or sale of marijuana is considered a felony and those
persons found guilty of it "shall be
punished by imprisonment in the
state prison for a period of two,
three or four years," according to
California Health and Safety Code
Section 11360.
According to Lewis, when the
Campus Safety officer first went up
to the room to make contact with
the occupants, there were three occupants by a desk and one occupant
on the other side of the room. The
officer alledgedly asked the three
occupants to move aside and, when
the three complied, the officer immediately noticed one of the large
bags of the substance and the two
scales. The three occupants reportedly stated that the fourth occupant
had nothing to
do with the evidence when
asked by the of-
ficer who
owned the supplies.
The officer,
after requesting
the assistance of
another Campus Safety officer and Ehrlich, reportedly
asked if there
was anything
else in the room and received permission to search the room, according to Lewis. The officer allegedly
then found the second large bag in a
drawer of the desk and the three
smaller bags in a dirty clothes hamper.
Lewis compared the incident to
another incident during the first semester in which the Whittier Police
Department was contacted after
Campus Safety officers allegedly
discovered marijuana and hallucinogens in a Stauffer Residence Hall
room.
"[The situation] was not unusual in that the suspects drew attention
to themselves... if students are doing something wrong, they usually
draw attention to themselves. That's
how we [Campus Safety] get involved," Lewis said.

The Voice of Whittier College Since 1914
Quaker Campus
GET FIT AND GET FUNKY
We rate the gyms in the Whittier area, like we don't
have a gym on campus • Campus Life, Page 9
Thursday. March l 1. 2004
Issue 20 - Volume 90
REVIEW OF NEW PLAY
We review Our Town which opened Wednesday-
night • A&E, Page 12
Web.Whittier.Edu/QC
Power company aborts plans
to shut off campus electricity
Patrick Holmes 1»* ^^B1B1B^BB1^1^ fJT'^''
Patrick Holmes
QC News Co-Editor
Signs on residence hall doors
warned students that campus power
would be turned off and switched to
generator power Monday, March" 8,
. at around 7 p.m. but the power switch
turned out be a false alarm. The
signs were posted because the school
"had an alarm go off that signaled
an outage was possible," Executive
Director of Human Resources and
Administrative Services Jan Meri-
deth said. "However, Southern California Edison (S.C.E.) [the company that supplies power to the college] aborted [the alarm]."
' Junior Harris resident Gina
Gutierrez saw the signs and said, "I
turned off my computer and that
morning, before I left the room, I
turned of all the lights." First-year
Stauffer resident Kim Morrison said,
"I saved my essay and I stayed
online and talked and I told some of
my friends that I might sign off."
The reason the reason for the
potential shut down is because the
school is part of a program called I-
6 through S.C.E. "Since May of
1993, the Col lege has had a contract
with S.C.E. to shut down the power
3 :■ :':'
PAUL GALLAHER / QC ASST. PHOTO EDITOR
The Whittier College generator will provide backup power to
the College in case of an emergency, said Executive Director
of Human Resources and Administrative Services Jan Merideth.
in the event of a stage three power of the contract, S.C.E. can order the
shortage," an article in the January College's power shut down for up
18,2001 Quaker Campus [issue 14,
volume 87] said. "Under the terms see POWER, page 7
Grocery strike draws to a close
Grocery workers approved a
tentative contract negotiated by the
United Food and Commercial
Workers Union that ended the 141-
day strike against Albertsons Inc.
and Kroger Co., who own Ralphs
and Safeway and are the parent companies of Vons and Pavilions on
February 29. Although the details
of the contract have not been publicized.. CNN reported that the contract requires employees to pay for
health benefits and establishes a
two-tier system where veteran employees will be paid more than the
newer employees. The new contract does not discuss raises. The
three-year agreement covers more
than 23.000 Albertsons associates
in 259 stores in Southern California.
According to a statement issued by Albertsons, the President
of Albertsons' Southern California
Division Dave Simonson said, "We
Tammy Marashlian
QC News Assistant Editor
are thrilled to welcome back our
associates. We will be working very
hard to win back customer loyalty
and make life easier for these customers as they resume shopping in
their neighborhood Alberstons
store."
"I think it was more of an inconvenience for the people who had to
go there," said sophomore Julia
Diaz. "But for me, I didn't have to
go there; so I could shop at Target or
Wal-Mart." However, other students such as junior Julie Harrington
needed to go to the markets despite
the strike. "I felt that they were
mean and they yelled at me every
time I went because I had to go,"
said Harrington.
Some Whittier students feel
unsympathetic toward the grocery
workers. "I do not believe that unskilled labor deserves benefits because there are people out there
with college degrees who are strug
gling for a career, while these workers just demand benefits for pushing buttons and shopping carts—
it's unfair," said first-year student
Cynthia Zaragoza.
The four-and-a-half-month
strike, which started on October 11,
affected 859 stores from San Diego
to San Luis Obispo to Bakersfield
and has cost Albertsons $235 million, according to the Los Angeles
Times. "From a worker's viewpoint,
it was worth it because they got
what they wanted even though it
took a while," said first-year student Patricia Carlos. "From a consumer' s perspective, it wasn' t worth
it because right now the prices are
low, but in the long run, it will hurt
the shoppers," said Carlos.
Among the 70,000 employees
that were locked out was senior
Harmony Valuet who works at Al-
see STRIKE, page 7
Marijuana suspicion
leads to three arrests
Brycie Jones
QC News Co-Editor
Three WhittierCollege students
suspected of marijuana possession
and distribution were arrested by
the Whittier Police Department soon
after midnight on Wednesday,
March 3, according to Assistant
Chief of Campus Safety John Lewis.
According to Lewis, two large
eight-inch by eight-inch Ziploc bags
and three smaller, sandwich-sized
Ziploc bags full of a "leafy, green
substance resembling marijuana"
and two scales were allegedly discovered in a third floor Stauffer
Residence Hall room the late
evening of Tuesday, March 2. Campus Safety was called to the room
by a Resident Advisor to investigate apossible marijuana smell coming from the room when the substance was reportedly discovered.
Lewis said, "Due to the large
quantity of substance, we notified
the Whittier Police Department.
When they
arrived they
photographed the
evidence
and took the
three suspects away.
[The students] were
arrested and
booked at
the Whittier
Police De-
partmentjail
facility."
According to Area Coordinator
for Stauffer and Johnson Residence
Halls Anne Ehrlich, the three suspects returned to campus the afternoon of Wednesday, March 3.
Although College disciplinary
action toward the three suspects has
not yet been decided, Ehrlich said,
"When students do something that
warrants involving police, they generally go to the College Hearing
Board."
According to California Health
and Safety Code Section 11357,
"every person who possesses more
than 28.5 grams of marijuana, other
than concentrated cannabis, shall
be punished by imprisonment in the
county jail for a period of not more
than six months or by a fine of not
more than five hundred dollars
($500), or by both such fine and
imprisonment." The maximum fine
"If occupants are doing
something wrong, they
usually draw attention to
themselves. That's how
we [Campus Safety]get
involved."
John Lewis
Assistant Chief of
Campus Safety
for first time possession of less than
28.5 grams is a fine of no more than
$100.
Distribution or sale of marijuana is considered a felony and those
persons found guilty of it "shall be
punished by imprisonment in the
state prison for a period of two,
three or four years," according to
California Health and Safety Code
Section 11360.
According to Lewis, when the
Campus Safety officer first went up
to the room to make contact with
the occupants, there were three occupants by a desk and one occupant
on the other side of the room. The
officer alledgedly asked the three
occupants to move aside and, when
the three complied, the officer immediately noticed one of the large
bags of the substance and the two
scales. The three occupants reportedly stated that the fourth occupant
had nothing to
do with the evidence when
asked by the of-
ficer who
owned the supplies.
The officer,
after requesting
the assistance of
another Campus Safety officer and Ehrlich, reportedly
asked if there
was anything
else in the room and received permission to search the room, according to Lewis. The officer allegedly
then found the second large bag in a
drawer of the desk and the three
smaller bags in a dirty clothes hamper.
Lewis compared the incident to
another incident during the first semester in which the Whittier Police
Department was contacted after
Campus Safety officers allegedly
discovered marijuana and hallucinogens in a Stauffer Residence Hall
room.
"[The situation] was not unusual in that the suspects drew attention
to themselves... if students are doing something wrong, they usually
draw attention to themselves. That's
how we [Campus Safety] get involved," Lewis said.